Monday, November 29, 2010

Happy Monday! I hope everyone survived the craziness of Thanksgiving and Black Friday! Today we continue our Paper Pretties Monday Whatnot releases with two absolutely adorable new digi stamps. ARTish's images just get cuter and cuter every week! This week we have Poodilicious Party and Leonardo Lion.

As an extra bonus this week, we are having a Cyber Monday digi sale! Buy any 3 digi images, get 1 digi image free! Do not add your free image to your cart, instead when you check out please write the name of the free image in the comment section and I will email you the free digi separately.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Happy Wednesday! Before we get to our new challenge, let's announce the winner of last week's challenge. Thank you to everyone to played along with us! The lucky random winner of "Ahoy Matey" is Annika! Congratulations. Please send me an email with your mailing address to hlrcrafts at hotmail dot com.

Before we get to this week's challenge, I wanted to mention that Paper Pretties is having a Thanksgiving sale...15% off your entire order Thursday-Sunday. Use coupon code: GIVETHANKS when checking out!

With everyone busy with family and shopping and all that jazz, we thought we would make our challenge simple this week...Clean and Simple that is. We'd love for you to play along with us! One random lucky participant this week will win the set "Joyful Heart". You do not need to use Paper Pretties stamps in order to play along, but if you do, you will get a bonus entry into the drawing! Please be sure to mention our challenge and link back to the Paper Pretties blog in your project posting. When uploading to SCS or PCP please use keyword PWC129. Please be sure to link up your project at the bottom of this post!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Happy Wednesday! Before we get to our new challenge, let's announce the winner of last week's challenge. Thank you to everyone to played along with us! I was SO excited to see so many cards made with Paper Pretties stamps! The lucky random winner of "Simply Special" is Peggy R! Congratulations. Please send me an email with your mailing address to hlrcrafts at hotmail dot com.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, our challenge this week is to make a THANK YOU card. Easy one again this week! We'd love for you to play along with us! One random lucky participant this week will win the set "Ahoy Matey". You do not need to use Paper Pretties stamps in order to play along, but if you do, you will get a bonus entry into the drawing! Please be sure to mention our challenge and link back to the Paper Pretties blog in your project posting. When uploading to SCS or PCP please use keyword PWC128. Please be sure to link up your project at the bottom of this post!

Monday, November 15, 2010

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend! It is time for our Paper Pretties Monday Whatnot release! ARTish has 3 absolutely wonderful digis for you this week! All 3 are available in the Paper Pretties store in the digital image section.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Welcome to the Operation Write Home Valentine's Blog Hop! If you've arrived here from Lena's blog you are on the right path!

Operation Write Home's Mission: To support our nation’s armed forces by sending blank greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them.

Operation Write Home is currently accepting Valentine Cards (The Christmas card deadline has passed, please do not send any Christmas cards at this time). The DEADLINE to get your Valentine Cards to OWH is Jan 7th, 2011. Be sure to read all of the submission guidelines for Operation Write Home.

OWH is a finalist in the Joann's Craft For a Cause contest. Please go HERE and vote for OWH. You can vote once a day!

Thanks for joining us in our hop today! As an added bonus Paper Pretties will be giving away 5 free digis to one lucky person who leaves a comment on today's blog post. You have until 6PM CST Sunday Nov. 14th to leave a comment. Winner will be posted here on Sunday night.

Before we get to the hop, we have a few winners to announce! Here are the winners from the 7 preview days! Please email your mailing address to me at hlrcrafts at hotmail dot com and I will get your sets mailed out right away.

Preview Day #1 Surprise Sophia ...CarolPreview Day #2 Get Well Fairy Violet...NancyPreview Day #3 Thanks Snow Much Sophia...DebraPreview Day #4 Best Friends...TheresaPreview Day #5 Skater Zac...SammibugPreview Day #6 Everyday Sentiments...AlexisPreview Day #7 Sledding Cooper...Anita

Congratulations to all of our winners!

We are kicking off the hop right here! We have 7 AWESOME guest blog hoppers joining us today, so be sure to hop all the way to the end. The projects are absolutely incredible! You won't want to miss a single one!

And just in case you are new to our blog I thought I would mention once more that Paper Pretties has a BRAND NEW OWNER and a BRAND NEW COUNTRY! Now located just about in the middle of the United States, we are so pleased to offer you amazing customer service, faster and cheaper shipping, and a wider variety of stamping "must have" products to go along with all of your new stamps!! Basic Grey, Kaisercraft, Copic and more! Orders are shipped within 24 hours.

THANKS SO MUCH for hopping with us today, now head on over to CINDY'S BLOG and start the hop! We hope you all have a wonderful day! Enjoy!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

We hope you have enjoyed our week of previews! Today's preview is the last of our November sets. All 7 of the new sets will be available in the Paper Pretties store tomorrow! Be sure to stop back here tomorrow for an awesome, inspiration filled blog hop!

Today's preview set is called "SLEDDING COOPER" and is illustrated by Joni Stringfield.
The set comes with 1 main image and 4 coordinating sentiments.

First off, let's announce the winner of last week's challenge. Thank you to everyone to played along with us! I was SO excited to see so many cards made with Paper Pretties stamps! The lucky random winner of "Snowy Snuggles" is Sammibug! Congratulations. Please send me an email with your mailing address to hlrcrafts at hotmail dot com.

This week our challenge for you is EMBOSSING. No explanation needed, LOL. We'd love for you to play along with us! One random lucky participant this week will win the set "Simply Special". You do not need to use Paper Pretties stamps in order to play along, but if you do, you will get a bonus entry into the drawing! Please be sure to mention our challenge and link back to the Paper Pretties blog in your project posting. When uploading to SCS or PCP please use keyword PWC127. Please be sure to link up your project at the bottom of this post!

Along with our challenge today we have a preview. Today's preview set is called "EVERYDAY SENTIMENTS". This is a fun set full of useful sentiments for everyday cards! There are 9 fun sentiments and 4 decorative accessory stamps.

Instead of posting all of the design team cards here today...we have an inspiration filled blog hop to celebrate Prettie Girl Jennifer's birthday. So head on over to ARTish's BLOG to start the hop. Be sure to leave Jen some birthday love when you get to the end.

As with all of the other preview days...leave a comment on this post for a chance to win "EVERYDAY SENTIMENTS".

Oh and don't forget, we are sponsoring the CPS sketch this week. They are giving away some fun Paper Pretties stamps too!

Thanks for stopping by today! We hope you all have a wonderful day! Check back tomorrow for our last November preview!

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

I can't believe we are already on day 5! We hope you have enjoyed all of the preview thus far! All 7 new releases will be available in the Paper Pretties store on Friday Nov. 12th. We will be previewing one set each day until release day. One random lucky commenter each preview day will win the set being previewed. The winners from each preview day will be posted here on Friday. As in previous months, we will still have a inspiration filled blog hop on release day (this month we have 7 AWESOME guest blog hoppers joining us!).

Today's preview set is called "SKATER ZAC" and is illustrated by Victoria Case . "SKATER ZAC" is the perfect addition to our growing collection of TEEN SCENE stamps by Victoria Case. I absolutely LOVE this set and I hope you do too. The set comes with 1 main image stamp, and 4 coordinating sentiments.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Today's post is long, but it is filled with lots of important info so please keep reading!

It is a busy week around here! We've got November release previews (today-Thursday), we're sponsoring the CPS challenge blog, we have a fun challenge for you on Wednesday, we have an AWESOME blog hop scheduled for Friday filled with inspiration and some FABULOUS guest blog hopper... AND we have 4 FABULOUS Monday Whatnot digis for you today! Phew...I'm tired just typing it all out, LOL!

So let's get started today with our Paper Pretties Monday Whatnots! ARTish drew some absolutely wonderful images for us this week! We are switching gears a little this week and hanging up our Christmas images for some Valentine's images. This switch is in honor of the Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps Valentine's Blog Hop. Operation Write Home is an absolutely wonderful group that
supports our nation's armed forces by sending them blank greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them. Because of shipping deadlines, OWH has ended their call for Christmas cards and are now looking for Valentine's Day cards! The OWH blog is sponsoring a Valentine's Blog hop this Saturday! There is still time to sign up to be a part of the hop if you are interested. You can find all of the blog hop info HERE. If you are interested in donating cards to OWH, please read all of their submission guidelines HERE. Paper Pretties is proud to be a part of Saturday's blog hop. We will be giving away blog candy at our stop on the hop so you'll definitely want to stop on by!.

Welcome to Paper Pretties!

Paper Pretties is an online crafting store, and home to Zac, Lily, Sophia and Cooper - the cutest kid stamps around! (At least we think so). We have many exclusive stamp lines, from elegant to whimsical, sweet to clever; there is something for every stamper in our Prettie Boutique!

Along with our full line of high quality clear stamps, we also have a large selection of digital images.
Thanks for visiting! We'd love you to join us in our weekly challenges - a new challenges are posted right here every Monday and Wednesday. YOU could win Paper Pretties stamps!!